Alessandra Gugliara, known as @inartemaskerina, is a multidisciplinary artist and creative facilitator specializing in the exploration of identity through the symbolic language of masks. A graduate of the Istituto d’Arte di Monza, her work unfolds across two inseparable dimensions: artistic creation and transformative accompaniment.

Through her Maskerine — sculptures made from papier-mâché, cardboard, and wood pulp that emerge from a process of inner inquiry — Alessandra investigates the identities we inhabit, the protections we build, and the thresholds that separate us from who we might become. Her masks embody archetypes and symbolic figures: mad hatters, clowns, kings, and queens populate her creative universe. Each character carries layers of meaning, evoking inner worlds and parts of ourselves that ask to be recognized.

Every mask is at once refuge and prison, cocoon and limit. Her works do not conceal: they reveal. They are sacred instruments that allow us to look directly at what is normally avoided, giving visible form to emotions and tensions that resist words.

Alongside her artistic practice, Alessandra leads experiential ArtLab™ workshops where art becomes a tool for awareness and transformation. Her programmes guide women, educators, and creative professionals through their own identity masks — to recognize what holds them captive and allow authenticity to emerge. She asks for no artistic skill, only a willingness to feel. Her approach favours process over performance, depth over speed, truth over aesthetics.

Alessandra’s background is rooted in theatre and set design, having spent years working as a prop maker and decorator in theatrical productions, fashion, and theme parks. This experience gave her a singular sensitivity to space, symbol, and the performative dimension of art.

She currently collaborates with the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo di Milano, where she leads creative workshops connected to museum visits, and with the Lyceum Calatafimi, a Milanese art therapy school, where she has developed workshops devoted to the mask as a tool for identity exploration.

Alessandra’s method is grounded in direct experience through the use and experimentation of unconventional materials. She proceeds through symbols, layering, and returns — never in a straight line. She believes that creativity is not a talent to be possessed, but an original condition to be remembered.

In her work, the mask is never an end in itself: it is a rite of passage. Through art and creative accompaniment, Alessandra opens spaces where what has been buried can finally breathe. She does not offer solutions: she creates thresholds. And in those sacred spaces, something true takes place